It was not reason that besieged Troy it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world that inspired the crusades that instituted the monastic orders it was not reason that produced the Jesuits above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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